Baby killing uber alles...

...or, House Votes to Reverse Ban on Funding for Stem Cell Research

The House of Representatives voted today to ease restrictions on federal financing for embryonic stem cell research, thus setting up a showdown with President Bush, who has vowed to veto the measure because he says it would promote destruction of life.

The 238-to-194 vote in favor, far short of the 290 needed to override a presidential veto, sends the issue to the Senate, where an identical measure is pending. Stem cell research has considerable support in the Senate as well. Its chief sponsor is Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, who heads the Senate subcommittee that controls federal financing for medical research.

Senator Brain Damage strikes again! You'd think an observant Jew who has come as close to death as Specter has would at least have a modicum of respect for...huh? What's that you say, voices in my head? Oh. He isn't? Well...Never mind then.

Fifty House Republicans broke with President Bush to vote with 187 Democrats and the chamber's sole independent, Bernard Sanders of Vermont, in favor of the bill. Fourteen Democrats joined 180 Republicans in voting against it. The House's action, and the likelihood of approval in the Senate as well, sets the stage for the first veto to be cast by President Bush, who reiterated his opposition this afternoon to the current legislation.

It should not be too hard to find those fifty R bastards. (Here they are. Remember, those who voted Yea are the baby killers.) Time for some party discipline.

(If you detect a whiff of partisanship here, congratulations. I no longer expect any good to come from the Party of Blasphemy, Buggery, and 'Bortion. I am just glad they aren't going house to house with shotguns, looking for us. Yet.)